B4-002 Autonomic Nervous System Flashcards
mediates adaptive behavioral and physiological effects in response to variety of internal and external sensory stimuli
ANS
have a final interneuronal synapse between a CNS (preganglionic) neuron and a peripheral (postganglionic) neuron
autonomic motor pathways
- don’t have neurons in ganglia
- CNS neuron project directly into muscle
voluntary motor pathways
have ganglia which contain peripheral neurons but not interneuronal synapses
sensory nerves
both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia have
cholinergic excitatory synapses
ganglionic neurotransmission in both sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways is mediated by
excitatory nicotinic cholinergic receptors
output is discrete
parasympathetic nervous system
output is diffuse
sympathetic nervous system
sites of autonomic neurotransmission
varicosities
transmission between a varicosity and target cell occurs across a
junction
prejunctional component
varicosity
postjunctional component
target cell
primary transmitters of parasympathetic neuroeffector transmission
- acetylcholine
- nitric oxide
acetylcholine: synthetic enzyme
choline acetyltransferase
nitric oxide: synthetic enzyme
NO synthase
acetylcholine: termination
cholinesterase
nitric oxide: termination
diffusion
acetylcholine: receptor
muscarinic
nitric oxide: receptor
guanylate cyclase
acetylcholine: positively effects
parasympathetic
M1, M3, M5
acetylcholine: negatively effects
parasympathetic
M2, M4
nitric oxide: effect
smooth muscle relaxation
sympathetic neurotransmitters
acetylcholine (5%)
norepinephrine
acetylcholine: effects
sympathetic
- eccrine sweat glands
- gland excitation
- thermoregulation only
norepinephrine: synthetic enzyme
dopamine B-hydroxylase
norepinephrine: termination
- 80% reuptake
- COMT, MAO
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norepinephrine: receptor
adrenoreceptor
a1 is located
post junctional
a1 causes
- smooth muscle to contract
- increased salivation
a2 is located
pre-junctional
a2 inhibits
NE release
b1 is located in
heart, kidneys
b1 causes
- increased inotropy
- increased chronotropy
- increased angiotensin II
b2 is located
- smooth muscle
- glands
b2 causes
- smooth muscle relaxation
- increased salivation
- increased glycogenolysis
B3 is located
fat
B3 causes
increased lipolysis
acetylcholine and norepinephrine can excite or inhibit depending on
types of post junctional receptors present on target cell
the amount of transmitter released by postjunctional autonomic nerves is regulated by
prejunctional inhibitory autoreceptors
if excitatory transmitter release is persistently high…
post junctional receptor sensitivity can decrease
if excitatory transmitter release is continuously low…
receptor sensitivity can increase
mediates “fight or flight”
sympatho-adrenal system
characterized by broad and diffuse system activation
sympathetic system
mediates “feed and breed”
parasympthetic system
characterized by discrete changes in activity to selected organs
parasympathetic system
the parasympathetic system activates non vascular smooth muscle via
cholinergic receptors
the parasympathetic system always relaxes spinchters via
cholinergic receptors